The bell jar itself—a glass container—serves as Plath’s overarching metaphor for two reasons. Beautiful roses are placed under bell jars to deprive them of oxygen, so that they die but remain in their lifeless but beautiful state.

To love Christ, we know, is to be at war with a world that does not want Him to deliver it from its sinful ways. But the tactics of spiritual war are far less straightforward than the principles offered by Sun Tzu.

I used to be viewed as a lone crackpot when I talked this way, but now people are no longer buying the argument that tenure promotes academic freedom. Many now see that most of academia ought to be fired, just like anyone else doing a lousy job.

The Berkeley riots represent a golden opportunity to reform higher education, but it is an opportunity that can easily slip away. My book, Wackos Thugs & Perverts, was being finished for publication just as this happened.

I know that the dark side of a Clinton presidency would be not merely difficult, but also intolerable, and that Clinton as president would be incomparably more damaging than the likely flaws of a Trump presidency.

In the 1952 classic High Noon, Gary Cooper plays Will Kane, an honorable marshal on the nineteenth-century frontier, who wants to retire with his Quaker bride, Amy (Grace Kelly), and turn in his badge.